l the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when
saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink?
And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and
clothed thee? And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came
unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I
say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren,
even these least, ye did it unto me. Then shall he say also unto
them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal
fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was
hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave
me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and
ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in
prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them,
saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one
of these least, ye did it not unto me. And these shall go away
into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal
life.--Matt. 25:31-46.

"Whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead." Think of
it--absolute justice done at last, by an all-knowing Judge, where no
earthly pull of birth, wealth, learning, or power will count, and where
all masks fall! By what code of law and what standard shall we be judged
there? Here is the answer of Jesus: Not by creed and church questions, but
by our human relations; by the reality of our social feeling; by our
practical solidarity with our fellow-men. If we lived in the presence of
hunger, loneliness, and oppression, in the same country with child labor,
race contempt, the long day, rack rents, prostitution, just earnings
withheld by power, the price of living raised to swell swollen profit--if
we saw such things and remained apathetic, out we go.

_You and I--to the right or the left?_

Study for the Week

No one can turn from a frank reading of the Gospels without realizing that
Jesus had a deep fellow-feeling, not only for suffering and handicapped
individuals, but for the mass of the poorer people of his country, the
peasants, the fishermen, the artisans. He declared that it was his mission
to bring glad tidings to this class; and not only glad words, but happy
realities. Evidently the e